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Smoking 'police' given power to fine public
Thousands of council staff are being trained to police the smoking ban in bars, restaurants and shops in England.Ministers have given councils £29.5m to pay for staff, who will be able to give on-the-spot £50 fines to individuals and take court action against premises.They will have the power to enter ...
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Slow fall on infant mortality
Infant mortality rates are falling more slowly in poorer areas than in less deprived ones, according to a Department of Health report.
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PCTs failing to take sexual health seriously
Government initiatives to make sexual health a priority are not getting through to the frontline, according to a survey published today by sexual health charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.The findings show that Choosing Healthmoney intended for sexual health has been diverted elsewhere by almost ...
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More funding for new social enterprises small for side
Social enterprise organisations are set to receive a further cash injection in the government's comprehensive spending review, HSJ understands.
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Hewitt: NHS to grow faster than economy
NHS funding is likely to increase by at least 3 per cent beyond 2008, the health secretary has hinted.
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Doctors' co-operative set to expand
Centres for Clinical Excellence (CCE), the healthcare company set up as a doctors' co-operative, is set to become one of the UK's biggest private healthcare players treating NHS patients as it prepares to acquire Nations Healthcare and bids to take over Mercury Health, HSJ has learned.
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'Exceptional circumstance' clause for PCT outsourcing
Primary care trusts will only be able to outsource all of their commissioning expertise in 'exceptional circumstances', with plans to be signed off by the Department of Health.
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Commissions launch children's injury report
The Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission have today launched their Better Safe than Sorry: preventing unintentional injury to childrenreport.The report shows that each year there are approximately two million attendances by children at hospital accident and emergency departments as result of accidents that may ...
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LINks will fail public, warns CPPIH chair
Government proposals to make the NHS more accountable to patients will actually exclude the public from long-term decisions worth billions, MPs heard last week.
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Progress on cancer reform strategy
National cancer director Professor Mike Richards has announced progress on the strategy for the reform of cancer services in England.In a letter to the NHS he said that work on the strategy was 'well in hand'. He cited opportunities in new technology and drugs to help people live longer and ...
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Anger at India outsourcing plans
The NHS is to drastically increase the proportion of outsourced financial work carried out in India.
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After Eden, things look rosy in the social enterprise garden
With the possible exception of the Houses of Parliament, there are few places you could expect to encounter four government ministers and a member of the shadow cabinet in the space of less than six hours.
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Burnham plans NHS 60th birthday celebrations
Plans to mark the 60th birthday of the NHS next year by formalising its core values in a written constitution are to be put to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown by Andy Burnham, the health minister responsible for NHS reform.Mr Burnham said the constitution could include 10 core principles that ...
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Stopping needless operations could save £100m, says London Health Observatory
Stopping unnecessary operations could save London's NHS almost £100m, according to new research.
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NAO and Dr Foster
Your editorial ('Criticism of Dr Foster JV masks the real story about poor data', 8 Feb) portrays the National Audit Office as worrying over a relatively technical issue of competitive tendering when the real story is about the lack of good data in the NHS. This is to misunderstand our ...
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Diagnostic test waiting times released
The Department of Health has released data that it claims will help in delivering the 18-week target.It states that the diagnostic test waiting times data for December 2006 shows the NHS's progress.The DoH states: 'The monthly data published gives the waiting times for 15 key diagnostic tests carried out in ...
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Doctors' union says the government must stop stalling on new contract
The British Medical Association is calling on the government to come clean on what has happened to contract proposals for staff and associate specialists, produced as a result of negotiations between the BMA and NHS Employers.Almost three months after the BMA and NHS Employers submitted the proposals, the government has ...
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'Exceptional circumstance' clause for PCT outsourcing
Primary care trusts will only be able to outsource all of their commissioning expertise in 'exceptional circumstances', with plans to be signed off by the Department of Health.
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Call to share details on foreign medics
The General Medical Council is calling for better information sharing across European economic area countries to stop suspended medics from working in Britain.
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Final confirmation of avian flu virus strain
The Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs has made a final confirmation that the avian flu virus strain found in Suffolk is virtually identical to the virus found in Hungary.Deputy chief vet Fred Landeg confirmed that the laboratory analysis of the Suffolk and Hungary H5N1 avian influenza viruses is ...